"nose-pick" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-nose-pick.ogg [Australia] Forms: nose-picks [present, singular, third-person], nose-picking [participle, present], nose-picked [participle, past], nose-picked [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} nose-pick (third-person singular simple present nose-picks, present participle nose-picking, simple past and past participle nose-picked)
  1. (idiomatic) To pick one's nose. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: nose-picker, nose-picking, rhinotillexomania Translations (To pick one's nose): نَغَّف (naḡḡaf) [Hijazi-Arabic] (Arabic), ковыря́ть в носу́ (kovyrjátʹ v nosú) [imperfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-nose-pick-en-verb-36zBBZsc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for nose-pick meaning in English (1.7kB)

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